Carrier country bogie wheels

[ron]

Hi Darrin,
Thanks for your reply, The steel part of the wheels are the same diameter as the steel part on the normal Australian H pattern,I have a couple of british wheels here and am familier with their style,Australian track width at the bottom of the horns is three and a half inches and at the top of the horns it is four and a half inches, I realise that there would have to have been some clearance to allow for the track warping when turning the vehicle,the width of the rubber where it contacts the track at the bottom of the horns is three inches on the standard Australian wheel there are grooves in the out side of the road wheels which I would say had some connection in regard to the bonding of the rubber road wheel, I have also seen the steel wheels as you mention and also the front idle wheel that you ajust the track tension with, I guess the way I am thinking is that British track is narrower than Australian,and with rubber fitted they would fit perfectly,could they be Australian pattern wheels made here to fit British track, did we at some time have enough British track? to warrent a run of our road wheels to use this tack up?? just a thought,
Again thanks for your reply and interest.
Regards Ron

[Lynn Eades]

Ron, I think somebody has reduced the width of the wheels to suit the available track, and with use the rubber has fallen off.

[David Ellery]

Yeah, that will most probably be what has happened Lynn, as the same was done to a LP Carrier in Sth Auckland many years ago due to the availability of good unused canadian track over the lack of good LP track.
David...

[ron]

Hi lyn &David
I think what you say is proberly correct, but given the years that the conversion was performed and the fact Australian track was plentiful it was a bugger of a job to pull eight road wheels and set them up in a lath and turn them down to a reduced size I thought that it may have been done to ensure the track stayed on to compensate for the slewing of the tracks when the change of direction was done by using the Marmon Herrington transfer case thanks both of you for your reply, The entire job just looks to complicated to have been done on the place where it was used and was supposed to have been done by the mans fathers from where I got the machine, i was in the workshop on the property where it came from there was no lath or power tools in fact no electricty, all these things make our hobby all the more interesting,if we knew all the answers there would no be much fun in it, Thanks again Regards Ron